The man who said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), often called Teddy or T.R., was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He became the youngest president in U.S. history at age 42 after the assassination of William McKinley, having previously […]
Roosevelt Quotes and Bio Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945—the only president elected to four terms. A distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR graduated from Harvard and Columbia Law School, entered […]
Winston Churchill’s retort to Labour MP Bessie Braddock in 1946 In the dim corridors of the House of Commons one weary evening in 1946, the air thick with the echoes of postwar debates, Winston Churchill—the once undisputed leader of England, fresh from his electoral defeat and now the grizzled Leader of the Opposition—shuffled toward the […]
Yes, Ronald Reagan Said It. President Reagan’s best known quotes “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. […]